What is on Your Mind?

Done.

I also reinstated the original badges as a couple of you requested.

Thanks.

Note: All your feedback and comments were very helpful and the site is much better because of you guys.

I'll be slacking off until I get my 34" "development monitor" fixed. Working on small screens gives me a headache.

OK. Sorry. I thought I had remembered you having a home page that displayed some of your diving adventures.

Thanks for fixing the things I've reported. I like the new look and it seems to be working well.

In addition to having a nice development monitor (which I don't have), I think I should also point out that getting more than four hours of sleep per night also helps reduce headaches.

Another nit to add to the bottom of your list of things to do...

When one hits the Thumbs Up icon to give thanks for a post, the user's name appears and the Thumbs Up icon disappears from the bottom left corner of the post (as it should) but the thanks counter for the submitter of that post in the upper right corner of the post does not increment (or decrement if thanks is removed) until the page is redisplayed.

I realize that counter could appear in multiple posts on a single page of posts from a thread. It would be nice if all of them were updated, but it seems to me that at least the counter in the thanked post should be updated as part of the "give thanks" operation.

Hey Don,

Updating the counters are all cron based for performance reasons and so it's unlikely I will make any changes to update counters in real time. To create data base queries to update counters in real time would case a significant performance hit for the site and updating counters in real time is not necessary.

If I hit the thumbs up button and refresh the screen, the counter goes up. If I remove my thanks on that post and refresh the screen again, the counter goes down. All of this occurs is in less than 5 seconds. How often is this cron job running to it make this look like it is happening in real time?

Don,


Let's put this discussion on hold as we have much more higher priorities than getting counters to update in real-time (at this time).

Plus, my work monitor is dead and I'm waiting for the tech to come here in the next day or two (ASUS onsite service).

I did say that this was a nit to be added to the BOTTOM of your list of things to do...

But, as I said, if I hit the thanks icon and refresh the screen, the counter is incremented in real time. And, if I remove my thanks and refresh the screen, the counter is decremented in real time. I could easily believe that cron was invoked between hitting the thanks icon and refreshing the screen OR between hitting remove thanks and refreshing the screen; but I can't believe that cron is running twice in less than five seconds and catching both the increment and decrement at just the right times to update the counter on both screen refreshes.

See the attached three sequential screen shots noting the timestamps on the screen shots and the thanks counter in the upper right corner of your post. (It did take me 12 seconds to get the three screen shots, but I still find it unlikely that cron ran twice in that 12 second period.)

It seems that the names of the underlying files isn't included when the screen shots are uploaded. The timestamps on the three screen shots are: 2018-07-31 at 8.57.52 PM, 2018-07-31 at 8.57.57 PM, and 2018-07-31 at 8.58.04 PM.